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Cine DAILY. Trees of Life by Vadim Rizov The first image in Rise of the Planet of the Apes is surprising for what it lacks, and we're not talking about F/X innovations or original ideas: it's a simple helicopter shot of a jungle, followed by dissolves closer to the forest floor.

It's a recognizably green and sunny forest—not a mess of computer foliage, color-corrected to some sickly monochrome with digital haze floating around it. For a movie that relies heavily on unnatural-looking CGI animals (you get used to it fast), director Rupert Wyatt's new entry in the four-decades-and-running franchise scorns the fuzzy fake landscapes of Hollywood's loudest movies; much of the time, we're obviously looking at real buildings and locations, which balances out the chimp fakery.